On Thu Dec 2 7:27 , Debajit Adhikary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >I suppose something like this has been posted in the past, but >nevertheless, there is so much obscure, neat and useful software out >there, that I just wanted to know what you like and what you don't and >perhaps a why. (Not that I plan to start a flame war or something) > >If you do reply, please add any other suitable categories. > >-------------------------------------- >Here's my favourites list: > >Image viewer: GQView >(i find it very fast -- and the "progressive" image rendering is great >for large images)
GQView >Movie mlayer: MPlayer >(Opens everything. Very good speed and usability) Xine >Text editor: Kate (KDE 3.3) >(I used KWrite earlier... Kate now seems more lightweight and fast and >feature rich) vi >Music player: XMMS 1.2.10 >(Speed, Queue/Unqueue "dynamic playlists", usability -- Amarok's >equalizer is intimidating to say the least) XMMX >PIM: Kontact > >Ripper/Music encoder: bladeenc + GRip > >Game: So far Quake III Arena Demo on Linux >(That's the only good 3d game i could get running on Linux. Has anyone >run Unreal Tournament on Linux?) Rarely play games.... never since shifted totally to Linux. >"Desktop environment": KDE 3.3 >(Feature-rich, good and easy configurability) Gnome >Distro: SuSE 9.2 >(Takes care of the little details in an OS... KDE seems pretty fast... >excellent fonts and multimedia and hardware support etc. all out of >the box... needs little tweaking for what should already be there) Fedora Core >Web Browser: Firefox 1.0 >(Maybe this would be a unamimous decision for most...) Firefox >Image editor: Gimp 2.0 >(Has anyone run Photoshop -- any version at all -- over wine in Linux? >I would like to know how you did it) Gimp >Video Editor: Still looking for one CD Writing s/w: K3B Cheerio Vivek. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
